1Password is listed as a Featured Download at Apple's official Downloads site. In fact, it also ranks among the most popular downloads in the Networking & Security category there, as 1Password currently holds the #3 position.

It is definitely an honor to be featured on Apple's own website. But it is even greater to have customers like you propel us into the most popular downloads list! We can't thank you all enough for making 1Password the success that it is.

May 27, 2009

If you've been looking for a faster way to browse the web and log into sites no matter what browser you're using, you may be interested in Go & Fill, one of 1Password's most useful and time-saving features. From 1Password's Dock icon, browser buttons, or Logins window, you can quickly find a website you want to log into, open it in a new tab, and have your user name and password automatically filled in—all with just a couple strokes of your mouse or keyboard.

To explain how Go & Fill works and demonstrate the ways in which you can access this killer feature, we put together a short screencast (whereby "short" we mean two minutes and fifteen seconds). Check it out below.

By the way: this is the first screencast we've made in a while (thanks ScreenFlow!), so please leave any thoughts, requests, complaints, or advice on what you would like to see when we start cranking out more of these (hint, hint). Don't be shy—the more feedback we get from you, the better our screencasts will be, and the more you'll learn about all the great ways 1Password can make your browsing safer, more secure, and more convenient.

Everyone who uses the Web for awhile knows that login information starts to pile up quickly. With online e-mail accounts, login information for online banking, and countless forums, most users start to use the same passwords for everything. It's pretty easy to see how this is a bad security practice [...] 1Password is the best software available to keep your logins secure without having to remember tons of passwords.

The Agile Web Solutions team is honored, and we thank CNET for bestowing an Editors' Choice Award on 1Password!

Next are two (count 'em: two!) 1Password endorsements from National Public Radio (NPR). In an article titled You Need Better p@s5W0rD$!, technology journalist Omar Gallaga recommends 1Password for storing and using your passwords online. Wisely, he also recommends using passwords that are at least eight characters and include a combination of letters (both lower and upper-case), symbols, and numbers.

The NPR's second hat-tip to 1Password appears on the May 19th episode of All Tech Considered, where host Michele Norris tackles "The Search For The Perfect Password." Norris opens the show with a few "password predicament" anecdotes from real people on the street. But as 1Password's users know all too well, these might as well have been called "password horror stories."

"My name is Cherry Brownlee," began one of these many password horror story predicaments. "I have so many passwords, I can’t keep track of them. I have a company, and I have to call the person in charge of accounting to keep track of all of our passwords on our various accounts. It’s one of the curses of technology."

Norris continued her segment by asking Omar Gallaga: "Why do we need so many passwords? Why can’t we have something like a universal remote, one password that we can use for everything?"

We'll give you three guesses as to what Gallaga recommended to solve this 21st century conundrum.

"The last thing you want to do to use the same password as your login name, to use family information like your date of birth or, you know, birth of your kids as passwords, or to write down your password on a Post-it note and stick it on your desk. I know everybody does that, but that’s another way to drive your IT department crazy."

"I’ve been using a program called 1Password, [...] which keeps all of my passwords remembered and is easily accessible in the Web browser." Gallaga is also a fan of 1Password's little brother: "And one reason I really like it is that there’s also an iPhone version of it that transfers all of my passwords to my phone. So if I’m accessing Web sites on the go, it has the same passwords as my desktop." Gallaga's right: 1Password touch for iPhone and iPod touch (a free-for-a-limited-time download from the App Store) is a secure, convenient way to never be without your Logins, personal information, secure notes, and credit card numbers.

We're overjoyed to receive such great 1Password praise from these esteemed outlets. Thanks CNET and NPR!

May 15, 2009

In an appearance on the MacNotables podcast episode #914, Macworld Senior Editor Chris Breen shared some great words and anecdotes about 1Password with host Chuck Joiner. We couldn't mince Chris' segment, so check out a transcript of his kind words about the benefits of using 1Password:

I managed to lose a password or a username to BackJack, a Mac-friendly online backup service. Trying to get my information back was... their security was really, really good, so that’s the positive. But trying to recover a lost password was painful. You had to go through five different windows and steps to get to this thing. Normally when you lose a password you click a little link, they ask for your e-mail address, and they send a new code to your address so you can reset your password. Not a big deal.

BackJack take this stuff seriously, all your stuff is encrypted, so it isn’t just a simple email. You have to go to the site, remember what was the password for this, a different one for that, and oh I’ve forgotten that one too, and... Oh never mind I’ll just create a new account and start over, which tended to be the faster way to do it.

Now that I use 1Password, that won’t ever happen again.

I love [1Password], it is a utility that will store both your online passwords and credit card information. So when you go to a website that you signed up for eight months ago and you neglected to write down the password or you wrote it down on a piece of paper and then throw it away somewhere, [1Password] will store your passwords. All you have to do is click on the “1P” browser button and it will say “fill in login for so and so” and off you go.

A number of credit cards have been compromised lately, as many people who have been getting those notices at home as calls from Citi Bank or wherever your bank is, saying “we just wanted to check these charges because we think there’s some suspicious activity on your account. It looks like your credit card has been compromised, so we’re sending you a new card.”

Well now you have to go through your credit card statement and try to recall which service is attached to this credit card. Well there’s iTunes, Netflix, TiVo, your ISP, this and that. Next, you have to go back to all those sites and remember what the login password was—1Password fills that in for you—and you have to enter new credit card information. Once again, you’ve got that stored in 1Password, so with a single click, it puts in your credit card name, your number, security code, and mailing address if they need that as well. Something that would have normally taken me two or three hours to do, I was able to do in a half an hour with 1Password, which made it totally worth whatever I paid.

I hope those guys are selling trillions of copies of 1Password.

Thanks Chris! We aren't quite in McDonalds sales territory yet, but we'll be sure to put up a sign when the 1 trillionth 1Password user is served!